For conservative-book publishers, bashing Obama is the best route to a best-seller

This week's literary quiz: is barack Obama a) an amateur, b) a socialist anticolonialist radical or c) a great destroyer? The answer, according to recent New York Times best-seller lists, is all of the above, which may be bad news for the President but is very good news for the uncannily sure-footed conservative publishing machine.

In fact, Regnery Publishing Inc. of Washington claims to have "the highest batting average" at producing best sellers in the entire industry--"by far." Two of the top three hits on the most recent list are from the Regnery lineup. At No. 2, Obama's America by Dinesh...